Sometimes I see them in the baking sections of very comprehensive or more luxury-ended grocery stores, but your basic Safeway or whatever doesn't tend to have them. Mail-order is probably the best bet.

Market Basket has root beer extract. (At least the one in Chelsea does.)

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You can try TJ Maxx and Marshall's too. They're kind of hit or miss, but I've gotten chocolate extract, raspberry extract, peppermint extract etc there before. I think they buy from Williams Sonoma or something.

Otherwise, I second the kitchen or baking specialty store recommendation. I wonder if Michael's or Jo Anns or some of those big craft stores would carry them?

There's a great import store on 7th Ave. in brooklyn south of that spice shop on 5th that has a great extract selection as well as bulk bins and it also run by lovely people. They sometimes have homemade rosewater that is fab.

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Strangely, Walmart has the most extensive selection of extracts around here. But I made my own chocolate extract with vodka and cocoa nibs. I found root beer flavoring somewhere (the dreaded big box store above?) It wasn't real extract but it worked in the recipe I had.

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i did buy what i thought was maple extract on my mission to find root beer and chocolate extract at WF figuring maybe i would make the maple cupcakes from VCTOTW but then later i realized what i bought was "maple flavor"

i did buy what i thought was maple extract on my mission to find root beer and chocolate extract at WF figuring maybe i would make the maple cupcakes from VCTOTW but then later i realized what i bought was "maple flavor"

is it pretty much the same thing?

Dang - I just checked my maple and it is maple flavor as well. I bought it at WF 2 weeks ago. They had a sale on extracts and I bought a few but I didn't look at the label very carefully. I used it to make Maple Walnut cookies and they were delicious!